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A spectator's take on life

Vinay Payyapilly

Apr 223 min read

The Writer's Ally: How Generative AI is Transforming Creative Expression

Writing, like any other skill, improves the more you do it. In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explores the importance of doing...

Vinay Payyapilly

Feb 63 min read

The Footprint

If the tables here could speak, they’d tell you stories – enough to fill many tomes. There would be stories of pranks, stories of...

Vinay Payyapilly

Jan 224 min read

Rabbit, Turtle, and Peacock

Karan looked across the floor of the store. He couldn’t be sure but the man browsing in the books section definitely looked like Amit. At...

Vinay Payyapilly

Jan 153 min read

A tragedy of comic blunders

How does one become an Indian citizen? I wonder if any one of us who identify as such have ever given it a thought. If you are not an...

Vinay Payyapilly

Jan 35 min read

The journey

Although the train journey started only 30 minutes ago, the journey she was on started eight months ago. Samiksha made her way to the...

Vinay Payyapilly

Dec 27, 20233 min read

Work-life balance

In India, over 11000 people (about the seating capacity of Cameron basketball stadium at Duke University) in the private sector committed...

Vinay Payyapilly

Dec 18, 20233 min read

Beach litter

The wind whipped around him like an invisible cloak. His hair flapped around like a black flame. In the horizon, the orange sun was in...

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